Mary+Cybulski

On September 26, 1922, 35-year-old homemaker Mary Cybulski (nee Zyskowski), a Polish immigrant, died at her Chicago home from peritonitis caused by a criminal abortion performed there that day. (The source gives the date of offense as September 15 and the date of death as September 1, so clearly there's an error in the database.)

On November 15, Lucy Kozolwski, whose profession is not given, was indicted for felony murder in Mary's death.

Keep in mind that things that things we take for granted, like antibiotics and blood banks, were still in the future. For more about abortion in this era, see [|Abortion in the 1920s].

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 * [|Homicide in Chicago Interactive]

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